Weird bits of trivia detailing how much stuff we've lost and how weird some of it is, seem to have become perennial news items. |
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It's a safe piece of trivia that no one expects but then it's pretty easy to remember. |
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The incredulity, thinking further back, at all the trivia through the last decade we got ourselves worked up over. |
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The account of the trivia magazine offers links back to their website and fun facts, all presented in short, snackable tweets. |
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Over time, their trivia games lead to sexual exploration and all kinds of would-be kinky relationship layers start to develop and ferment. |
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Critics have lambasted him for going over the top on trivia and conversely for not putting in the boot hard enough. |
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Hold an official family spelling bee or trivia contest, using index cards to write down words or questions. |
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Also included are a few dinosaur facts files and a trivia quiz, both of which should appeal exclusively to kids. |
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As adults, we tend to think children's squabbles are unnecessary, that they are trivia blown up out of all proportion. |
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The users get their knickers in a twist over trivia and niff-naff on the site. |
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You really think I'm supposed to marry you on the spot right now just because you answered some silly trivia question? |
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We demand information, both essential facts and trivia, about whatever we eat and drink. |
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Gideon and Annie agreed the word trivia is in many ways a misnomer for important knowledge. |
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To be fair, I know a fair amount of minutiae about a lot of things, being a trivia magnet. |
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He's an unwitting folklorist, a collector and expounder of hipster philosophy, barroom trivia, and pseudoscience. |
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The danger is that a public stupefied by celebrity and trivia will be ill-informed and disinclined to engage in the democratic process. |
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All you can say is wow, and plan to sit in front of the television for the next two days geeking out to Halloween trivia. |
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Never assume that other people will be interested in the banal day-to-day trivia of your mundane existence! |
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These mini-features are chock full of fun, interesting trivia, and are not to be skipped. |
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The book is exhaustively cross-referenced and indexed in an additional 200 pages, making it a trivia buff's wet dream. |
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The show's format will have three contestants dealing with three rounds of sports trivia questions. |
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Nigel has provided a site which gives statistical information and many items of trivia about the club. |
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Off the pitch he is renowned as a sporting trivia expert with a remarkably wide range of knowledge. |
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Having heard it repeated a few times, I now find it's one of those pieces of trivia that I simply know. |
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Interesting trivia and movie minutia will grace your screen as you watch the film. |
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This book abounds in detailed memories and fascinating trivia of this sort. |
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One night I happened to be there during the weekly trivia game hosted in the coffee shop. |
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Apart from a trip to the supermarket, we stayed home, catching up on trivia of course but, mostly, just resting. |
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Newspapers always mix the trivial with the important, for the very good reason that trivia can be entertaining. |
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The day passed quickly, filled with scary word puzzles and history trivia games with Jolly Rancher prize pots. |
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This intramural trivia tournament will be running from noon till 6 p.m. in the MC building. |
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There's also an enjoyable trivia track that serves up Pop-Up Video-style factoids about both the movie and the social environment it depicts. |
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These interviews are superb, loaded with fascinating trivia and insights that are truly unique. |
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The museum highlights history, amusing trivia, and shows step by step the way kazoos are made. |
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The play is a retrospect, an incomplete remembrance of a summer some 40 years past, trivia recalled, major events trivialized. |
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The last extra is a trivia game, which rewards good answers with brief clips from the film. |
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For trivia buffs, Helen's own daughter is a Capricorn, and has been working as the production manager on Lord of the Rings. |
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Two separate dissociations occurred in Experiments 1 and 2 involving repetition priming in the context of a trivia paradigm. |
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Chattering about tabloid trivia or television celebrity shows, he can barely conceal his lack of interest. |
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Lyrically, he favors rhymes and trivia more here than in his previous work. |
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What was once relegated to the category of trivia has not, tastelessly, morphed into a television channel. |
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When the caravan wraps up, you'll have a chance to win prizes in our trivia scavenger hunt. |
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For months, more than a hundred radio stations broadcast trivia questions and gave away sample games to listeners. |
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Every morning when I arrive at work, I can turn the page of my calendar for a new Scrabble fact, trivia question, or brain-teaser puzzle. |
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I know far too many bits of minute trivia having to do with the Star Trek series and films. |
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Part of this involves a trivia contest that allows kids to win McDonald's prizes. |
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Her short-term memory is very poor but she has a great mind for trivia about old film stars. |
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It wears thin though once the trivia bits begin repeating themselves. |
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Hexagon, where she endeared herself to Japanese audiences for giving ridiculously answers to trivia questions. |
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Well, I suppose there's nothing like laying your trivia on the table at the outset so that anyone who's not up for some girlie chat can go put some shelves up in the kitchen. |
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Ted is a quirky guy that loves esoteric topics like Teddy Roosevelt trivia and the history of belts. |
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The ride up was mainly uneventful, it was a three-hour trip and the hostess of the train car kept us entertained with games and trivia about the Grand Canyon. |
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Each contains an individual magic trick, entertainment scroll, joke, tongue twister, trivia question and paper hat. |
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The organizer includes trivia and other games, translator, address book, alarm clock, class scheduler, calendar, memo pad and calculator. |
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Complete puzzles, answer trivia questions, unscramble words and keep the beat to win points. |
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The result is a form of strategic denial and neurosis in which leadership is replaced by trivia, and irresolution masked with grandiloquence. |
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And maybe we can start on English football itself, with its wasted riches, its trivia obsession, its proud and diligent philistinism. |
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As a further tidbit of trivia, it seems that a mysterious herb that grows only on the banks of the River Po was necessary for polishing the wood. |
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Bill's a grand fellow, but he has a lot a more, shall we say, trivia, and unabashedly so. |
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There may be too much attention to trivia, a tendency to narrate, and a great deal of repetition. |
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No, this isn't the title of a new wizards-themed novel, but a few tidbits of turkey trivia for you to gnaw on. |
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Test your knowledge of JCI and international trivia at Spotlight JCI, World Congress's first-ever competitive game show. |
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I astound myself with my memory for useless childhood trivia. |
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We demand that the media present the facts in an even-handed manner, investigate indications of corruption and mendacity, and spare us the trivia. |
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The games are a mixture of trivia questions and other puzzles: fans will love it. |
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It is the custom at international conferences to speak trivia, but now we need action, and fast. |
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Host a Canada Games Day and get kids from 4 to 14 involved in unique activities, fun trivia and creative rewards. |
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Featuring a three-round interactive music trivia game this promotion is available today at www.dontmissabeat.ca. |
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Are we occupied during visitations with trivia and insignificant things, which can be solved and has to be solved by each community by itself? |
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Even if you aren't interested in the picture disc, these questions are a good opportunity to test your knowledge of Iron Maiden trivia. |
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The spring-inspired events range from workshops to curator presentations to pub trivia. |
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Cricket has been played for a long time and is filled with interesting facts, trivia and personalities. |
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For example, a child may have a preoccupation with baseball scores and trivia but no wish to play baseball. |
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Their managers are loaded with detail instead of being relieved of all trivia so that they may devote their special talents to important things. |
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Starting today through May 31, 2006, participants in Don't Miss a Beat play a music trivia game available at www.dontmissabeat.ca. |
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Today's scripted trifles are the most important trivia of his life. |
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It was a testament to the public's thirst for trivia and anecdote. |
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I was dragged up on stage and forced to take part in the trivia quiz! |
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Marketing for the latest film, which will be released in the US in April, will include trivia games on chalkboards and words from the film printed inside pastry cases. |
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Our bar trivia team won three straight pitchers of beer this week. |
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Or, buy a deck of quiz or trivia cards to keep their brains plenty busy. |
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Rather like the way of life it celebrates, The Radetzky March hinges on trivia and bathos more than any real grand gesture. |
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Mr Hamilton says the complaints are trumped-up trivia. |
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In reality, it's all too easy for a board to become distracted by operational issues and miscellaneous trivia to which the board can add little or no value. |
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Brad Rutter is trying to turn his trivia fame into entertainment. |
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It would be the lowest common denominator of societies, cultures and knowledge, and it would not allow much in the way of communication beyond the conventional exchange of trivia. |
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Here are five tidbits of trivia to ponder as you percolate. |
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The purpose of this site is not to carry the latest Maiden news or trivia. |
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Before I move into the substance of the paper, allow me to share my initial research efforts and in the process give you some bits and pieces of trivia. |
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You need to routinize yourself You can't be going through the day distracted by trivia. |
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They point out any lack of rigor in news production, any absence in the news agenda and follow-up, as well as any accumulation of trivia to the detriment of issues of national and international importance. |
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Her brain was a Wikipedia of songs, and she could give anybody a run for the money with music trivia. |
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The text, a series of encyclopedialike Star Wars trivia blurbs, is generally as dull and dry as the Tatooine desert. |
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Quiz show questions needn't focus on trivia. |
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Calling all JCI Members with a mind for trivia and a personality for the stage. JCI is hosting the first-ever international game show at the 2009 World Congress in Tunisia. |
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So we're unleashing our most powerful boredom-buster yet: goofball trivia. |
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Brain Freeze is a podium-based trivia game show, that puts three individuals against each other in a fun battle of the wits. |
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The nicknaming of Portland provides a neat segue into the trivia quiz that occasionally appears in this space regarding the State of Oregon. |
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So don a fascinator and ready yourself for William and Kate look-alike contests, royal trivia, breakfast bangers, tea, scones and, of course, Champagne. |
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There is also a charade song for people to get, a trivia question, Dingbat brainteaser and a joke. |
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A TEAM of Coventry brainboxes has won pounds 600 in a national contest to find the country's top trivia talent. |
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Urban Life Through Two Lenses reveals a century's worth of changes by juxtaposing historic and contemporary photographs of Montreal and pairing them with games, trivia and image manipulation tools. |
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In order to enter, Jo must submit his first and last name, age, home address, phone number and e-mail address along with his answer to the trivia question. |
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They were more patient while waiting for their female partners to answer the trivia questions and warmer, friendlier and chattier than those who were hostile sexists. |
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Using trivia, reminiscence, and word association, individuals can test their memory and gain new knowledge on a wide variety of topics related to people, places, and things. |
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While the paper has admitted some trivia to its columns, its whole emphasis has been on important public affairs treated with an eye to the best interests of Britain. |
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As a music fan I am locked in a contact battle with my mates over who can be the geekiest, know the tiniest piece of trivia and be first to hear a new band. |
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And if all that's not enough for you, trivia fans, it was also the first American film to use stereophonic sound as well as the first and only film recorded in Fantasound. |
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Schottenfreude is simply wunderbar, and would make an excellent addition to the library of any logophile, trivia buff, or lover of fine typesetting. |
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If she seeks to free women from domestic trivia, why twitter on about chintz? |
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Before repairing to a local hostelry for beer, cosmopolitans, odd conversation about the noise cotton wool makes and other such essential trivia. |
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All that you need is a curious mind, and the ability to absorb various kinds of trivia. |
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And so, when dealing with these Awesome Days, I'll stick to the relative safety of Talmudic trivia, Midrashic miscellany, customs and folklore. |
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He soon became a cornucopia of trivia, and one day decided to have a shot at creating his own puzzle, just for a lark. |
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I have a disturbing fascination with minutiae, general knowledge, pointless facts and other trivia. |
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The contents are more or less similar to ordinary diaries in that they both record daily trivia. |
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The tone of the site is bang on target, from the over-excited use of exclamation marks to the mangled syntax and personal trivia. |
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The bimonthly began as a Duke University newsletter packed with trivia, like the number of kids worldwide who play with Legos and the year Pez was invented. |
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And so the brothers began to speed-read hundreds of biographies and books, compiling the anecdotes into a smorgasbord of trivia. |
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The details of supposed slights and implied insults are trivia. |
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As a result of talking to no one of any importance, they fell into the trap that so many in the media do of becoming obsessed with spin and trivia. |
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The Bank of England website contains a treasure trove of banknote trivia. |
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Some results are interesting, though many shade into trivia. |
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Country music has been with people throughout the twentieth century, and has produced tons of its own history and trivia. |
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I'm hoping that readers of this column yearn similarly for the answers to trivia, because I have a curveball or two of my own. |
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Bob memorized his haftarah for his 1957 bar mitzvah from a record but promptly erased it from his memory to make room for baseball trivia. |
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